Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

New American Standard Bible

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

King James Version

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Holman Bible

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

International Standard Version

"You are not to give false testimony against your neighbor.

A Conservative Version

Thou shall not bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Amplified

“You shall not testify falsely [that is, lie, withhold, or manipulate the truth] against your neighbor (any person).

Bible in Basic English

Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood.

King James 2000

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"You shall not testify against your neighbor [with] a false witness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Thou shalt bear no false witness against thy neighbor.

NET Bible

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

New Heart English Bible

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou shalt not testify against thy neighbour, with a witness of falsehood.

Webster

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

World English Bible

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

עד 
`ed 
Usage: 69

Context Readings

The Ten Commandments

15 You shall not steal. 16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

Cross References

Matthew 19:18

He said to Him, Which? Jesus said, You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness,

Exodus 23:1

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Psalm 15:3

he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and a breather of lies shall not escape.

Matthew 26:59-60

And the chief priests and the elders and all the sanhedrin sought false witness against Jesus, in order to put Him to death.

Exodus 23:6-7

You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his cause.

Leviticus 19:11

You shall not steal, nor lie, nor be deceitful to one another.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 19:15-21

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be made sure.

1 Samuel 22:8-19

But all of you have conspired against me, and none of you was revealing in my ear when my son cut a covenant with the son of Jesse? And not one of you is sorry for me, even to reveal in my ear that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as today.

1 Kings 21:10-13

And set two men, sons of Belial, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And carry him out and stone him so that he may die.

Psalm 101:5-7

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

Proverbs 10:18

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

Proverbs 11:13

One going with slander is a revealer of secrets, but the faithful of spirit keeps the matter hidden.

Acts 6:13

And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

1 Timothy 1:10

for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else that is contrary to sound doctrine,

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

James 4:11

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

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